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Loyola Marymount University Inc (Teacher)

LMU 2017 Mandarin Teacher Summer Institute

Language(s)

Chinese

Date(s)

July 1, 2017 – August 31, 2017

Location(s)

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The LMU 2017 Mandarin Teacher Summer Institute will continue to respond to the demand for highly qualified teachers of Chinese by providing support and resources through the provision of two pathways for teacher preparation: 1) The continuing graduate-level Mandarin language credential, and 2) the Certificate in Teaching Mandarin in PreK-12 Settings. Pathway 1: Credential program outcomes include: 1) recruiting and admitting highly qualified K-12 Chinese language teacher candidates for entrance into the secondary or multiple subjects requirements and master's degree program; 2) Supporting Summer Institute participants in passing state testing requirements; 3) Providing 2 cohorts of teacher candidates (21 total) with 6 units of graduate-level coursework applicable to their credentials and masters. The credential program offers 110 hours of coursework, independent work and clinical practice for graduate credit. Pathway 2 is the Certificate in Teaching Chinese in Pre-K – 12 Settings with a targeted enrollment of 13 participants (5 new and 8 returning) who teach in heritage or other programs. Pathway 2 participants complete a hybrid course-series offered through LMU Extension for up to 12 continuing education units of credit (120 professional development credit hours). Upon completion of this second Summer Institute Pathway, participants will: 1) Expand knowledge of content-based Mandarin language and literacy, with a focus on the arts and movement education (Content-based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development in Mandarin); 2) Incorporate research-based practices in assessment linked to instruction (Assessment Basics and Oral Proficiency); 3) Apply new skills in content instruction in Mandarin and engage in reflection about their practices (Practicum in Teaching Mandarin); and 4) Deepen knowledge and skill in teaching Chinese grammar (Chinese Grammar Pedagogy course).

Contact(s)

Chinese American International School (Teacher)

CAIS STARTALK K-8 Teacher Training Program

Language(s)

Chinese

Date(s)

June 26, 2017 – June 30, 2017

Location(s)

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The CAIS STARTALK K-8 Chinese Teacher Training Program will provide twelve teacher participants with the fundamentals for instruction in a Chinese language classroom. This intensive one week training for teachers will facilitate high quality Chinese language programming in their schools. Teacher participants will learn the critical skills they need to be innovative and successful in the classroom during the forty hours of instructional time which have a focus of in class practicums built into the program design. They will build and evaluate curriculum, integrate culture into their language program, develop performance based assessments, and access authentic teaching tools and resources. Through hands-on classroom teaching, participants will interact with real students studying Chinese in CAIS student program.

Contact(s)

ClassRoad - HADI (Teacher)

Startalk Principles for Meaningful Online Learning

Language(s)

Arabic, Chinese, Persian

Date(s)

June 26, 2017 – July 23, 2017

Location(s)

Fully Online - CLASSRoad Canvas (LMS) Course, , CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

CLASSRoad’s STARTALK 2017 fully-online program will provide opportunity for thirty-five (35) intermediate and master Arabic, Chinese and Persian language teachers to focus on TELL Learning Experience Domain criteria LE 4c and LE 4e, building their ability to provide meaningful learning experiences and advance student learning through the use of a variety of strategies to make language comprehensible, and by frequently checking for understanding in a variety of ways throughout a lesson, while staying in the target language for 90% of instructional time. The highly collaborative program will include real time interaction among instructors and participants, feature live and video presentations by experts, formative assessments, discussions, observations of recorded online language teaching examples (including video from previous year teacher participants), peer learning and feedback, peer microteaching practice, online co-teaching to remote language students, and self-assessment and personal growth plan development. The four-week program (80 contact hours) will feature three weeks of module-based daily instruction and online collaborative group work, including several days of peer microteaching and preparation, followed by a fourth week that involves instruction to remote novice language students, along with peer observation, personal reflection and professional planning. The program will be delivered using the online learning management system Canvas and the web-conference platform Adobe Connect, allowing for adaptive design, improved mobile accessibility, the giving of timely feedback, and the course to be structured in an innovative and highly interactive manner. Note: this is not a self-paced program for teachers to complete independently, but a highly interactive online course that includes collaborative online peer group work throughout the course.

Contact(s)

Chinese American International School (Student)

CAIS STARTALK 2017 Student Program

Language(s)

Chinese

Grade Level(s)

K-2, 3-5

Date(s)

June 19, 2017 – July 28, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Chinese American International School, San Francisco, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The purpose of the CAIS STARTALK Elementary Immersion Program is to provide continuity for retention, enhanced learning, and reinforcement of Chinese language and culture skills to a constituency of San Francisco Unified School District and student who are studying in similar immersion models that would otherwise not be able to access such an opportunity. As a result of participating in the summer program, students will be confident of their language capabilities and enjoy learning about Chinese culture in a fun environment. Students who have been identified as struggling during the school year have the chance to reinforce their learning. We are targeting twelve students per grade, 1st to 5th grade inclusive for two three-week sessions for a total of one hundred fifty students and two hundred and ten instructional hours.

Contact(s)

University of Southern California (Student)

STARTALK Korean at USC

Language(s)

Korean

Grade Level(s)

9-12

Date(s)

June 19, 2017 – July 14, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

STARTALK Korean at USC will offer a 4-week Novice-level Korean language classes to high school students (9th-12th grades, total 24 students). We recruit non-heritage students with no prior knowledge as well as those with basic communication skills in Korean. Participants will earn 5 high school credits upon the successful completion. By the end of the program, we expect students to reach Novice Mid or Novice High (for returning students from a previous STARTALK program) on the ACTFL OPI scale. The daily program includes four hours of instruction from Monday through Friday (6/19~7/14/2017), totaling 80 hours of instruction including Orientation and Field Trip.

Contact(s)

Loyola Marymount University Inc (Student)

LMU 2017 Mandarin Student Summer Immersion Program

Language(s)

Chinese

Grade Level(s)

K-2, 3-5

Date(s)

June 19, 2017 – June 30, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Castelar Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The LMU 2017 Mandarin Student Summer Immersion Program is based on ACTFL Standards-Standards for Foreign Language Learning and Preparing for the 21st Century, as well as aligned with the Common Core, Visual/ Performing Arts, and Physical Education Standards for California Public Schools. Expected program outcomes are that students will be able to: 1) perform Chinese folk art dancing, sing, recite Chinese poetry, complete and describe hands-on culture, art and craft projects; 2) Guide family/community members through a market-place simulation during a culminating experience representative of this year’s theme, Discovery through the Virtual Journey along the Silk Road; 3) Integrate Chinese language and cultural learning through the Virtual Journey by learning proverbs about travel/journey, their meanings and morals, and engage in interdisciplinary instruction with language arts, math and social studies. This program targets 184 students from Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown, as well as neighboring sites currently providing Mandarin Dual Language Programs in the greater Los Angeles area. We will hold 8 simultaneous class sessions and students will participate for 4 instructional hours per day, 5 days a week, for two weeks totaling 40 student contact hours.

Contact(s)

Mandarin Institute (Student)

Mandarin Institute SFUSD Startalk Program

Language(s)

Chinese

Grade Level(s)

6-8, 9-12

Date(s)

June 19, 2017 – July 7, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

City College of San Francisco Chinatown Center, San Francisco, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

Housed in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Mandarin Institute San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) STARTALK Middle and High School Program provides 36 students with a truly authentic, immersive learning environment designed to promote verbal skills and to imbue students with the confidence to use their language skills in real world situations for meaningful communication.

During the three week program, students will participate in six hours of engaging language study each day which includes classroom time, cultural units, mini-excursions into Chinatown and a distance learning component that matches each student with a personalized tutor in China for unrehearsed spontaneous dialogue. Our students go into the community and we bring the community into our program.

Students register for Immersion grades 6/7 or 8/9 or High school Chinese III and are expected to achieve Novice Intermediate to Intermediate ACTFL oral proficiency while gaining an appreciation for major cultural values and practices. Upon successful completion of the 90 hour program, high school students may earn one semester of high school foreign language credit pending their school requirements.

At the end of the program our students will have the communicative competence and confidence to engage in authentic dialogues with native speakers in real-world situations.

Contact(s)

California State University, Northridge (Student)

CSUN Russian Language & Culture Immersion Program

Language(s)

Russian

Grade Level(s)

Undergraduate

Date(s)

June 15, 2017 – July 21, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA

Program Setting

Residential

Summary

The STARTALK Russian Language and Culture Immersion Program is designed to promote accelerated language learning with integrated knowledge of culture, protocols, and national identity in modern Russia. The program will admit 20 undergraduates from universities and community colleges across the nation, dividing cohorts into proficiency tracks: Novice and Intermediate. Standards-based and thematically organized curriculum is programmed over six weeks of residential study with 306 hours of structured learning: 174 hours of in-class instruction; 87 hours of self-directed learning activities; and 45 hours of weekend cultural enrichment activities. Curriculum is organized around the theme "Let's Talk About Life," developing among students practical communication skills that are relevant in academic, professional, and everyday contexts. Participants typically advance one to two levels in language proficiency.

Contact(s)

Hilmar Unified School District (Student)

HUSD STARTALK Portuguese Language Academy

Language(s)

Portuguese

Grade Level(s)

K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Date(s)

June 12, 2017 – June 30, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Elim Elementary School, Hilmar, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The two primary outcomes for the proposed project are a positive learning experience for approximately 100 Portuguese heritage students in grades 2-11 ranging in language ability from novice to intermediate, along with a professional development experience for 15 Portuguese language and culture educators that will increase their language and cultural knowledge as well as their pedagogical content knowledge to successfully implement standards-based language instruction in their classrooms. The students will participate in approximately 75 hours of instruction in a three-week program that will be incorporated into the Hilmar Unified School District's summer school program.

Contact(s)

University of California (Teacher)

The Berkeley STARTALK Chinese Teacher Program

Language(s)

Chinese

Date(s)

June 12, 2017 – June 28, 2017: (Online)

June 29, 2017 – July 14, 2017: (Face-to-face)

Location(s)

Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA

Program Setting

Non-residential

Summary

The 2017 Berkeley STARTALK Teacher Program is a 23-day 184-hour Blended Program designed for twelve (12) teachers teaching or planning to teach grades 6-12 in public, private, and heritage schools. (The complete grant period will be April 1, 2017 through February 28, 2018). Each teacher participant will develop and microteach two Standards-Based lesson plans using backward-designed and STARTALK Endorsed Principles. One lesson will be developed and microtaught independently, another lesson will be done collaboratively with another teacher participant. The participants will also have the opportunity to review samples of teaching material, including demo teaching, various authentic materials, as well as STARTALK Classroom Video Collections & Multimedia Teacher Workshop Collections. The participants will also have the opportunity to meet the candidates in the Berkeley STARTALK Teacher Certification Enrichment (Infrastructure) Program in the post program workshop to learn how to become certified teachers.

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE